{"id":49594,"date":"2025-09-02T13:44:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=49594"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:44:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:44:42","slug":"compile-ffmpeg-8-0-in-ubuntu-with-nvidia-gpu-acceleration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2025\/09\/compile-ffmpeg-8-0-in-ubuntu-with-nvidia-gpu-acceleration\/","title":{"rendered":"Compile FFmpeg 8.0 in Ubuntu with NVIDIA GPU Acceleration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is a step by step guide shows how to manually compile & install FFmpeg 8.0 from source with NVIDIA GPU acceleration support through cuda-nvcc<\/code> and enable-libnpp<\/code> in Ubuntu 24.04 & 22.04.<\/b><\/p>\n

FFmpeg 8.0<\/a> so far is the latest version of this popular multi-media library, that features APV and ProRes RAW decoders, hardware accelerated VP9 and VVC encoding, and new Vulkan compute-based codecs support for FFv1 (encoding and decoding).<\/p>\n

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This tutorial is tested in Ubuntu 24.04 & 22.04, though it should also works in Debian, Linux Mint<\/b><\/p>\n

Before Getting Started<\/h3>\n

FFmpeg now supports hardware accelerated NVENC encoding (AV1, H.264, HEVC) and NVDEC decoding (H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1\/2\/4, VP8\/VP9, VC-1, AV1) through ffncodec<\/code>, and scale_cuda<\/code> filters to replace scale_npp<\/code>.<\/p>\n

They are usually enabled by default in FFmpeg packages from Ubuntu system repository or PPAs (e.g., my PPA<\/a> and Rob Savoury’s PPA<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Meaning, you don’t need to build FFmpeg by yourself, just install it from one the previous sources, then you have the basic NVIDIA GPU acceleration support.<\/b><\/p>\n

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FFmpeg in Ubuntu & PPA repositories has nvenc & nvdec out-of-the-box<\/p><\/div>\n

You ONLY need to follow this tutorial, when you need specific or more advanced CUDA-dependent features and\/or scale_npp<\/code> only filters.<\/p>\n

And, you need:<\/p>\n